David Perlmutter

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Mr. David Perlmutter serves as Board Member at Optimal+. He served as Managing General Partner at Eucalyptus Innovation Capital. He also served as a Board Member at Mellanox Technologies. He has served as a member of the board of directors since May 2014 and chairs our technology, strategy, and M&A committee. Since March 15, 2016, he has also served as a managing general partner of Eucalyptus Growth Capital, focusing on investing in Israeli hi-tech growth start-ups. He previously served, from 2009 and until February 2014, as an executive vice president, general manager of Intel's Architecture Group, and chief product officer of Intel. During this period, he was responsible for the business and development of Intel's platform solutions for all computing and communication segments, including data centers, desktops, laptops, handhelds, embedded devices, and computer electronics. Prior to that period, he served at Intel for 29 years, during which he held various management positions and was instrumental in developing several major products at Intel. Since April 2014, he has served as a board member of several private technology companies, including Stratoscale Ltd., a virtualization technology company, OptimaTest Ltd., a security and investigations company, and Kili Technology Corporation, a silicon, electronic,c and software design company. He also currently chairs two nonprofit organizations, The Israel Innovation Institute and Mishelanu-Strengthening Jewish and Israeli Identity of 2nd Generation Israelis in the US, and has been a member of the Board of Governors of Technion since January 2005. He holds patents on branch target buffers and multiprocessing cache coherency protocols. In addition, he received an award for innovation in industrial development from the Israeli president in 1987 for the development of the i387 math coprocessor and was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers in 2008 for his contributions to the mobile computer industry. He graduated from the Technion, with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He is located in Israel. His qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his executive experience in the software and technology industries. Our board of directors particularly values the significant knowledge he has acquired from executive leadership roles at Intel.